Crestview Aerospace
A vertically integrated manufacturer of aircraft structures and metallic components
About
Crestview Aerospace builds aircraft structures and metallic components for the world's most demanding aerospace and defense programs: precision-machined titanium and aluminum, sheet metal fabrication, welding, heat treat, chemical processing, and paint. Every one of them is performed in-house, and each facility is independently certified to AS9100D.
Most suppliers at this tier send work outside for special processes and inherit someone else’s schedule. Crestview closes the loop from raw material to finished assembly inside its own walls, across 450,000 square feet in two states. The company has supported Boeing for more than seventy years and
Bell Flight for more than twenty. Today it is privately owned and independently operated. We are accountable to our customers and their programs, not to a quarterly earnings call.
Leadership
The people accountable for the work
Crestview’s leadership team is built from operators: people who have run production floors, owned quality systems, and carried program schedules. They are based at the plants, not at a corporate office three time zones away.
Brian Sinkiewicz
Chief Executive Officer
Brian Sinkiewicz serves as Chief Executive Officer of Crestview Aerospace, bringing nearly three decades of aerospace and defense leadership to the company's mission of delivering advanced metallics and precision machining solutions to the industry's most demanding programs. His focus is on operational discipline, a strong customer-first culture, and positioning Crestview as a trusted long-term partner to its customers and industry partners.
Industry Experience:
Brian has led multimillion-dollar business segments at globally recognized defense companies. As SVP of U.S. Defense at GKN Aerospace, he oversaw a $740M multi-site business spanning aerostructures, fuel systems, landing gear, aircraft wiring (EWIS), and transparency systems for the F-35 and CH-47, among other defense platforms. Prior to GKN, he led a $500M airborne solutions business at Elbit Systems of America focused on electronic warfare, helmet-mounted displays, and precision-guided munitions across fixed-wing, vertical lift, and UAS platforms. He spent nearly 16 years at Textron Systems, rising to SVP and Division General Manager of a $300M defense division. His customers have spanned the U.S. DoD, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, RTX, and Bell Flight, with direct program experience across the U.S. Army, Navy, and Air Force.
International Programs:
Brian's international experience includes collaboration with partner nations across the Middle East, Europe, Asia and South Asia, and Australia — including regular interface with U.S. DoD security cooperation leadership at DSCA, SAF/IA, DASA (DEC), NIPO, and the U.S. State Department.
Education:
- MBA — Northeastern University
- BS, Business Administration — Bryant University
Mike Avery
Chief Financial Officer
Mike Avery serves as Chief Financial Officer of Crestview Aerospace, bringing more than 25 years of financial and operational leadership across aerospace, manufacturing, industrial, and consumer products businesses. His focus is on strengthening financial performance, driving operational improvements, and building the financial capabilities needed to support sustainable growth and long-term value creation.
Industry Experience:
Mike's career spans global organizations including GE and Henkel, as well as middle-market and private equity-backed businesses. His experience includes financial strategy, mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, business transformation, and financial planning and analysis, with a track record of improving profitability, working capital, and operational performance. His background also includes direct leadership of supply chain operations, providing a practical, operations-focused perspective on financial management and business performance.
Education:
- MBA — Arizona State University, W. P. Carey School of Business
- CPA (Certified Public Accountant)
Brian Zaitz
Vice President & General Manager
Brian Zaitz serves as Senior Vice President and General Manager at Crestview Aerospace, where he leads operations, engineering, program management and program execution. He has been with Crestview since 2021, bringing a disciplined focus on operational performance and strategy.
Industry Experience:
Brian brings more than 30 years of aerospace industry experience spanning business development, operations, and executive leadership. Prior to Crestview, he served in senior roles at Triumph Group, including Executive Director of Business Development and Vice President of Interiors, where he led aircraft cabin interiors product line development across domestic and international operations. Earlier in his career he was a founding member and President of InTech Aerospace, where he built and led the company's operations and business development within the commercial and defense aerospace markets for nearly a decade.
Delena Haefner
Vice President, Operations (MO)
Suzanne Looper
Vice President, Supply Chain & Quality
Suzanne Looper serves as Vice President of Supply Chain & Quality at Crestview Aerospace. With 18 years at Crestview and more than 25 years in the aerospace industry, Suzanne brings deep institutional knowledge and a proven track record of improving customer satisfaction and driving operational efficiency.
Industry Experience:
Suzanne has held progressive leadership roles across operations, quality, and engineering at Crestview, including VP Quality, Director of Quality & EHS, and Quality Assurance Manager. Earlier in her career, she served as a Senior Process Engineer at GKN Aerospace, supporting composite development, qualification, and steady-state manufacturing programs.
Education:
- MEng, Mechanical Engineering with Manufacturing Systems — University of Bristol
Joe Fisher
Senior Human Resources Manager
Joe Fisher serves as Senior Human Resources Manager at Crestview Aerospace, providing HR leadership across the company's manufacturing facilities in Crestview, FL and St. Louis, MO. His responsibilities span recruitment, performance management, compliance, employee relations, and policy and program management.
Industry Experience:
Joe brings more than a decade of human resources experience across manufacturing and aerospace environments. Prior to joining Crestview, he served as HR Manager at Pursuit Aerospace, where he managed full-cycle recruitment, benefits administration, and multi-site HR responsibilities across facilities in Georgia, Illinois, and California, including leading HR through acquisition and facility transition activity.
Background:
Before transitioning to HR, Joe spent 15 years in collegiate athletics as a head coach and administrator at the Division I and Division II level. That foundation in team building, talent development, and performance management shapes his approach to building strong, engaged teams at Crestview.
Education:
- MS, Education — Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
- BS, Physical Education — State University of New York College at Brockport
Our People
Experience you can't hire quickly.
Building complex assemblies takes people who have done it for a long time. Crestview’s workforce averages 12 years of tenure — the kind of institutional knowledge that does not transfer through a work instruction. 19% are veterans, which shows up in how seriously this floor takes a spec.
Low turnover is not a soft metric in this business. It means the person building your assembly this year is the person who built it last year.
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340
Employees across two states
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12 YEARS
Average employee tenure
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19 %
Veteran workforce
Operations
Two plants.
TWO QUALITY SYSTEMS.
Complex assembly, fabrication, welding, and NADCAP-accredited processing in Crestview, Florida. Precision machining at KEMCO Aerospace in St. Louis, Missouri. Each facility runs its own AS9100D-certified quality system and its own ERP.